Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 307: Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci. John Waleys OFM, Floriloquium and other works

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 307: Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci. John Waleys OFM, Floriloquium and other works

Alternate Title:

Vita S. Guthlaci. Ioh. Wallensis

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 2 + 52 | 4 + 108

Dimensions:

250 Height (mm) and 160 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 800 CE - 899 CE]

Table of contents:

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• Vita Sancti Guthlaci
• Floriloquium siue Compendiloquium de uitis illustrium philosophorum et de dictis eorunden
• Breuiloquium de sapientia siue Philosophia sanctorum
• Legiloquium siue De decem praeceptis
• Tractatus de paenitentia
• De ente et essentia

Description:

CCCC MS 307 consists of two manuscripts bound together, probably by Parker. The first is a copy of the Life of St Guthlac by Felix of Crowland (fl.eighth century) written in English Square minuscule, a script descended from earlier Insular minuscule. It has traditionally been dated to the ninth century, but more recent palaeographical work makes a date in the early tenth much more likely. It also has two acrostic poems on Guthlac, which have become corrupt in copying. The second part of the manuscript is a fourteenth-century collection of works by John Waleys OFM (d. 1285), and one text, the De ente et essentia, by Thomas Aquinas OP (1224/5-74).